9 days ago
by Robin |
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Every year I like to try something new. This year I thought I would use some of the crab apples growing behind our house to make jelly. It was raining gently when my sons and I went down to pick the crab apples so I did not bring my camera. In between splashing in puddles, we filled a large bowl. The most fun for the boys was climbing the ladder. They also found the temptation to drop crab apples on someone’s head very difficult to resist. They ate so many of the little apples, I wasn’...
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10 days ago
by Iris43 |
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Not much to do in the garden these last days of August. Dead-head a little here, pull a dried up weed there, and maybe prune some unruly plants getting too big and scraggly. But the butterflies are starting to show up, headed south for the winter. The parent hummers have left already and the juveniles are fighting for the sugar water in the feeders and practicing their aerobic maneuvers to strengthen their flying and endurance. The birdfeeders have different birds and the birds have diffe...
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19 days ago
by Robin |
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Do you want color, texture and beauty, but you don’t want to be sowing seeds, digging up your gardens every spring and fall and weeding out unwanted plants in between? Perhaps you too might want to create a wild garden instead of a bed of winter sensitive annuals. By wild, I do not mean that I am trying to recreate the wilderness. Instead I mean to copy nature’s inspiration and plant or encourage attractive flowers, shrubs, trees and grasses in locations and patterns where they will thrive...
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24 days ago
by Iris43 |
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for supper tonight! Just came in from the garden and thought these look good enough for a picture. :) The big red tomato is the first Amish paste I’ve got, so I am really looking forward to tasting it. The carrots and beets are small but I just took the ones that were getting crowded to make room for the others to get bigger. I love the little ones, they are so tender. I’ve had loads of cherry tom., even given them away so they don’t go to waste.
Please note the...
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26 days ago
by jroot |
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I don’t recall who it was, but recently someone challenged us to find a weed as big as theirs. I wish that I could find it, but I believe it was more than a month ago.
At any rate, I measured my jewelweed today, and it measures out at 7 foot 2 inches, and it is still growing.
Some people call it a Himalyan Impatiens, but it is clearly a weed, albeit a pretty one. The bumble bees LOVE it, as they can get right inside of it. We have to be careful of it, because it shoots off seed ...
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33 days ago
by Iris43 |
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The first one of my ‘Hardy Hibiscus’ opened it’s first bloom yesterday. I wanted to show how similar the bloom is to Sharad’s and jroot’s Tropical Hibiscus. And I want to record the first bloom of each plant/bush that I have in my garden, so I can look back next year and compare. I am certain they bloomed much later last year and consequently the last blooms got hit by frost.
I plan to keep coming back to this blog to add each new flower as it blooms. So h...
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40 days ago
by Iris43 |
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This is a picture of the flower buds on one of my hardy hibiscus. It will be several weeks yet bf they bloom.
With the wonderful weather we’ve had, all our flowers are blooming ahead of time. Doesn’t it make you wonder if we’ll have any flowers for later this summer. Here’s what is blooming in my garden today.
Rudbeckia here
And here with the Echinacea
Some more Echinacea
And Rudbeckia gloriosa with phlox and AnnaBelle Hydrangea
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40 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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What a beautiful day, today is!! I’ve spent a lot of time in the gardens today, pulling some weeds, transplanting some things, and just “looking”.
Throughout the day, I saw:
The Big Frog(Maybe some day one of the little guys will be allowed to sit beside him and you can see the size difference)
A Monarch(this one is on some.. hmmm oregano?)
Another Butterfly(I don’t know the species. This one was on my butterfly bush)
WatermelonIt is fascinating to see h...
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40 days ago
by Robin |
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I do not garden in containers extensively. I find that plants in containers dry out faster than the plants in the ground and I don’t always find time to water them, with disappointing results. I have made exceptions for special plants that must come in for the winter (e.g. our dwarf pomegranate and avocado trees) or in temporary situations while a plant grows big enough to go into the ground (tree seedlings). Recently, I have acquired more plants that have ended up in containers so I have ...
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44 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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This is a quick walk-about .. well I didn’t really walk quickly – there weren’t TOO many mosquitoes out there so I enjoyed my time (as long as I was in the shade).
Anyway, I wanted to share these as well as document them for next year to see how the garden changes.
I think we spend most of our outdoor time checking out the frogs – seeing where they are hiding and how many are visiting.Here, two of them are sharing a rock.
ComfreySee the big leaves? That’...
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